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Everyday Block Heels

Block and mid heels in wearable colors: black, nude, taupe, camel. Wide heels stand still on a hard floor, which is what makes them the pairs that leave the closet most often.

Why this is the biggest section

A block heel puts the load down through a wide contact patch. It does not sink into carpet, it does not drop through a floor grate and it does not need the ankle working continuously to keep the shoe under the leg. That is the whole argument for it, and it is why these are the pairs that get worn more than once.

Most of them close with a buckled ankle strap, which is the part to look at rather than the heel number: a strap sitting above the ankle bone holds the foot back in the shoe and is forgotten within minutes, while a strap crossing the bone itself rubs and cannot be adjusted out of it. Fit and sizing goes through it.